DESCRIPTION OF A NKW SHELL FlIOM 

 (JALOUNDRA. 



By Charles Hedley, F.L.S., Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Communicated by Dr. T, H. Johnston, 



(With Two Text Figures). 



(Read before the Eoyal Society of Queensland, ZOth April, 



1917). 



CLANCULUS .JOHNSTONl, n. sp. 



(Figs. 11, 12.) 

 Shell small, solid, globose conic. Colour carmine, with 

 radial buff dashes, about eight to a whorl, reaching from 

 the suture half-waj^ to the peripher}-, umbilicus and 

 bordering funicle white ; as in allied forms, there is a 

 colour dimorphism in which olive brown replaces the 

 carmine, a trace of which yet remains on the summit. 





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Fig. 11. Fig. 12. 



Figs. 11 and 12 — Clanculits johtistoni, Hedley. 



Whorls five. On the penultimate there are four spirals, 

 the upper being a double bead row. and a fifth half-buried 

 in the suture by the succeeding whorl. On the last whorl 

 there are thirteen spirals which become taller, broader, 

 more Avidelj^ sjmced and more inclined to break up into 



